There has been an increasing amount
of talk about UFOs and it will help if this topic can be engaged theologically.
People who have faith in God might think they are blaspheming but to avoid this
topic is perilous. This article will look at two places in the biblical text
which at least allows us to consider an extra-terrestrial intervention of some
sort other than a divine one. We may be in a ten thousand year cosmic war as
quoted by some people today. To say ten thousand obviously predates the biblical
text, but there are a few crumbs on offer worth inspecting.
The book of Genesis, chapter 6 verse 4 (Gen 6:4), is of great interest for this topic. The middle part of the verse states, “…when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them…” This rare window into cosmic theology can be easily interpreted to read that extra-terrestrials mixed their DNA with earthly humans. The evil that seemed to come out of this grieved ‘Yahvah’ (God’s chosen name encountering Moses), so God brought about a destroying flood which killed all but eight humans on the planet! God may or may not have succeeded in eradicating the extra-terrestrial DNA through preserving these eight who were responsible for repopulating the earth. There are numerous flood stories that have come to us from antiquity.
There were many visitations by ‘angles’
(God’s messengers) and even a reading (Gen 18) when God was identified as ‘The One’
and then later in the chapter as Yahvah. In that chapter God personally conversed
with Abraham. But these don’t lead to UFO descriptions. A clear one of these
comes from whole of the first chapter of Ezekiel the Prophet (Ezek 1). The
readers of this article are invited to carefully read the biblical account of
this and the same time try to imagine Ezekiel’s vocabulary challenge when later
he recorded the whole experience. Traditionally, Jewish children were not
allowed to read this chapter until they were deemed to be adults. Peter has
attempted to illustrate this through the ‘lens’ of Ezekiel’s eyes and has
attempted to capture in the drawing the possibility of a described UFO. The
result was to make the ‘landing gear’ too large for the craft’s main body and
in a future drawing he will endeavour to fix that.
UFO sightings began in earnest
after World War II. Until very recently the ‘official’ response has been to
explain them away and mainstream news organisations restricted UFO stories to just
the local area where the sighting occurred, and allowed them to fade from
people’s memories. It is actually possible that all UFOs have been manufactured
by humans under massive amounts of secrecy for reasons unknown or probably sinister.
During the war, Germany is said to have made one such prototype and the
technology grew from there. From that time, reliable information about any UFOs
‘escaped’ in such a restricted ways that any who believed UFOs existed were
labelled conspiracy theorists. It is unfortunate that this secrecy has been
allowed to fester into the Monolith of Mystery that it is today. Now that ‘officialdom’
is opening the door to a tacit conformation that, yes, there are UFOs, we must
return to the biblical text and revisit some places that might also describe
UFOs, only thousands of years earlier.
Let’s assume that extra-terrestrials
exist and have the advanced technology to travel the enormous distances through
the Universe. Let’s also assume they don’t really need our planet’s resources
simply because they have got here on ‘their own steam’ so to speak. We can then
assume that they want something more precious. Could they be watching how well
we discover and develop scientific knowledge and advanced technologies because
of their DNA they gave our ancestors? Or, could they be watching the
development of spiritual character displayed through our ethical moral and
emotional responses to life, to God even. Because the Bible convincingly
presents Jesus and the most intelligent human ever to walk our planet, his
vindication from being falsely tried, tortured and executed, having an astounding
resurrection back to life, we have a solid frame to hold against any new
theological additions. It might be that the extra-terrestrial watchers are
particularly interested in who is a disciple of Jesus or not. Is it important
that we know which side to be on at a spiritual level? Do we need to know this
to be better equipped for a future hour of testing?
The motivation for the interest
that extra-terrestrials have in observing us so secretly is a mystery. Nevertheless
the Bible offers guidance for all who have been given this gift of faith. Jesus
taught us in his amazing three chapter long ‘Sermon on the Mount’ (Matthew 5-7)
how to do life in God’s kingdom both in the ‘here and now’ on earth as well as
for eternity in the ‘heavens’. We are to behave as children of the kingdom and
as such fall under the authority of God and not the influence and misdirection
of extra-terrestrials. Jesus landmark sermon teachers that this kingdom is
available to all and living in it generates a freedom to be compassionate,
exercising loving-kindness and mercy for those who harbour fear and hurt, who
are poor and lost. Extra-terrestrials may know that life on our planet is due
to end soon and are particularly interested about this conferred authority over
human souls.
True survival from the rubble of
time may only be a faith and focus on the good news of Jesus Christ. God is a ‘hallowed’
and just God so there is plenty of room in God’s plan for complete surprises. We
are called to survive with our spiritual position in Christ Jesus intact. This
is a highest calling. If the extra-terrestrials don’t like this protective
authority narrative, they could easily be actively intervening on and off
throughout all of human history. We must be on guard not to depart from the kingdom
base that Jesus won for us. It will be far better to be put under God’s authority
instead of taking up the socially easy options of ‘fence sitting’ or even avoiding
pain and torture.
We must not allow ‘cognitive
dissonance’ to cloud our observations to what might really be happening in the
world today. We must be willing to stand for freedom when pressed. Earth’s
prize that extra-terrestrials may be seeking is one massive spiritual and blood
sacrifice and even now with the help of ‘smoke and mirrors’ they are succeeding
with. Humankind is sliding into a trap. It is hard to shout about this loudly
and not be labelled as a conspiracy theorist, someone to ignore or be put away
for good. Those who for any number of reasons prefer the comfort of the status
quo, do their best to ignore this, even the earnest plea of a close friend, if
it goes against the ‘official narrative’. God has to intervene if this form of wilful
ignorance is going to be swept aside.
Human beings have to deal with self-centeredness.
A human must be born with this trait for natural survival. Infants will
innocently ‘demand’ love and care through crying for it. They will continue to
be self-centred through the early stages of human development. Their carers
have to teach empathy in order to moderate this. This will be only partially
successful, if society in general is any indication, and a divine intervention helps
inculcate God’s love into our lives. Becoming a disciple of Christ Jesus is
about exploring Jesus’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’ without seeing it as a bunch of
rules. It will teach people how to freely live under the authority and
protection of God. The holocaust that is potentially coming to planet earth
ought to be enough of a motivation to scramble for this kind of protection if
enough awareness of the truth of it got out. Many believe that hording provisions
in a personal bunker and being willing to kill others who attempt to steal it,
is the way of the future. No love there.
There is talk of a new world order
and of a world currency reset. These events have the potential to benefit only
the mega-rich. Even if the very best result happens, which follows a removal of
the leaders who bankrupted nations, the agreeing parties will be fallible, as
all humans are, and society will continue to harbour enough evil to bring the insurmountable
problem to a head again. Do we really believe that we can solve the
geo-political challenges without humbly and willingly falling under the
authority of God?
A great spiritual darkness rules the
world. If human kind survives this new form of holocaust the likelihood of
slavery waits in the wings. Our resources have been wasted and our wealth
stolen by people who have no intention of paying it back. Going after them (as some
people are doing) to take their very lives from them is a ‘not of God’
response. As it is, most of the ‘elite’ are bunkered in. They think their
quality of life won’t be so ‘cosy and sweet’ until they succeed in killing
eighty percent of the planets human inhabitants. They want to return the planet
to its pristine Garden of Eden state once the billions of polluters are
exterminated. Does this outcome interest the extra-terrestrials? Are they
horrified or is it part of their plan? Is there a connection between
extra-terrestrials and the evil forces of Satan? That’s certainly Satan’s
agenda. Are these groups the same? We will best have a careful and new review
of biblical theology under this question. And soon.
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